Quiz - I

1. He got admission in Lala Lajpatrai College in Mumbai in the cricketquota. He was a right handed batsman and left arm spinner but never played for the college team. He once told Sucheta Dalal that he would've played Ranji for MP if he had stayed on at Raipur and not migrated to Mumbai. His first job was as a clerk for New India Assurance for Rs. 600?
   
2. This appeared in a company's annual report - "A billion hours ago, human life appeared on earth. A billion minutes ago, Christianity emerged. A billion __________ ago was yesterday morning". Fill in the blank.
   
3. What is common to Deepak Shodhan, Lala Amarnath,Hanumant Singh, Abbas Ali Baig, Surinder Amarnath and Pravin Amre?
   
4. Lt. Col. Douglas Kirkpatrick ( Prof. of Aeronautics at USAF Academy ) on observing something said : ___ has overcome the acceleration of the earth's gravity by use of muscle power in the vertical plane, thus producing a low-altitude earth orbit.
   
5. What is special/significance of the number of shares Google is offering in its second public offer i.e, 14,159,265?
   
6. Connect jhankaar,Amore,Upop,Swing,Shruti..
   
7. Described by one of its stars as "Four hours long, with no stars, and no women, and no love story, and not much action either", this film nevertheless took 7 Oscars at the 1963 Awards, including the ones for Best Film and Best Director. Just name the film.

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Quizzing..

Hi there...

Any quiz aficionados over here... If yes, u might want to try ur hands at the quizzes that I would post from now on(most probably weekly, every Friday).

Lets start with a short quiz you might want to rack ur brains at.

Post in ur answers... & No googling though..;-)
The only prizes : Getting to know how good ur :)

-Cheers
Himanshu

Gurgaon Woes...

Gurgaon, also called the city of malls or the millenium city. But wait... I wonder why would it be the city of the millenium!!!
Just because the real estate prices are sky high... or because the architecture of buildings is brilliant... or because new construction projects are coming up at ever increasing prices...
But, what is it basically like to stay here-

1. The power situation is extremely poor and only getting worse. The winters have power cuts of over 2 hrs everyday and in summers you would be lucky if power outage is less than 8 hours on any given day.
2. Public transport is as close to nil as possible. The rickety buses that ply between Delhi and Gurgaon are not worth getting on but they are the only option (unless u want to use the private cabs and risk ur life after the number of incidents in recent times).
3. I do not seem to understand the reason for lack of buses within gurgaon. Not that it is a small town. The distance from the railway station to sec57 would be in excess of 15 km. and there are areas which are further apart. Also no autos ply on the road, at least on the better planned side of NH. This leaves hiring a cab as the only option, which is a very expensive.
4. Traffic discipline/management is again nowhere to be seen. Just because the newer parts of city has decent roads does not mean everything is fine. No one follows rules. There are very few traffic lights and fewer still which work. Even where they work, people hardly care to wait and jumping signal is no big deal. Sometime when I wait, I feel foolish when everyone just drives past caring least for the red light.
5. After the flyovers on NH finally opened(though supposed to be completed long back), the number of accidents is consistently on the rise. No arrangements are in place for pedestrians who want to go to the other side and they risk there lives just to cross the road.
6. You can always see the cows, sheep, donkeys blocking the roads and causing a traffic snarl once a while too frequently.
7. Security: This is another issue that keeps cropping up in news papers everyday. I think anyone living in the place would agree that they dont feel safe going out alone in the dark. petty thieves, robbery even killing just for small amounts can be read in the newspapers almost everyday.

Inspite of lack of basic amenities like transport, power, security... whey would it become a millenium city... are you sure we are talking about the 21st century!!!

(feeling at peace, after pouring out my rants... :)